What's the legality of purchasing a firearm as a gift for someone? I mean if someone says 'gee I'd really like a (insert firearm here) for xmas' and someone goes out and purchases a firearm for that person and there's no legal reasons or anything that'd prevent either the gift giver or receiver to purchase or own a firearm, that IS legal right? I'm just weary a dealer might suspect a straw purchase or something if someone mentions they are buying a gun for someone or just go looking around and go something like 'hmm he said something about wanting a (insert firearm here)' for example.
Guns as xmas gifts?
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yeti
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If everything else is legal, you may buy a gun as a gift. Buying as a gift is NOT considered a straw purchase.
Seeing as you are in VT, can I hope you're my secret Santa, and I'm going to get a surprise gun for Christmas?
Seeing as you are in VT, can I hope you're my secret Santa, and I'm going to get a surprise gun for Christmas?
yeti
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ha you wish
It never hurts to ask, especially around Christmas time.
A pocket pistol, 2 cases of ammo, Couple of rifles gleaming, and a shot gun to shoot into that pear tree!TigerXJ
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forgive my ignorance, but what is a "straw purchase"?
Deacon Blues
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A straw purchase is where a person who can legally buy a gun does so in place of a person who cannot.
As above, giving guns as gifts is perfectly legal. At least, the police haven't shown up at my door yet.
As above, giving guns as gifts is perfectly legal. At least, the police haven't shown up at my door yet.
chris in va
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What is 'xmas'?
Big Daddy Grim
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I always get my kids a gift certificate if they ask for a rifle that way they can get it when there ready.
AllAmerican
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Were giving my brother in law a 9mm.
Hope he isnt reading this. LOL
Hope he isnt reading this. LOL
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Do both individuals have to be residents of the same state? If you wanted to give a gift to a family member of another state would you have to transfer it through an FFL?
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Assuming the person receiving the gift may legally own the firearm, this is true. Gifting a firearm to someone who is a convicted felon would be a straw purchase, for example. Same goes to someone who is underaged. As someone else said, if the person receiving the firearm could not have purchased said firearm legally, then it would be a straw purchase.
I have given firearm gifts before. A Remington SPR 220 12 ga to my father and a S&W 681 to my sister. In both cases, I drew up a Bill of Sale (for $0) to show that I had transferred the firearm. Not required in my state, but I think the documentation is good to have, especially for my father and sister.
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Ya, I think I got it. Since the family member in question is not a resident of my state he couldn't take possession of the gun (unless I transferred it)?
You can buy it for them and then transfer it to the through an FFL or in CT you can complete the transaction yourself. Out-of-state relative, you could ship it from your FFL to his/hers and they will complete the transaction. If it were me and the relative were out of state, I'd send the $$. Less personal, but no legal worries at all.
yeti
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Don't correct me buy quoting half of what I wrote, then saying the same thing, the other half, that you didn't quote, said, as a correction.
And no. Giving a disqualified person a firearm, as a gift, still is not a "strawman purchase." Stupid and illegal, yes, but if it is bought and given as a gift, there is no straw in that putchase.
Not that it would matter to your cell mates.
JohnBT
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"What is 'xmas'"
"The greek letter 'x' is the first letter for the greek word for Christ, Xristos.
Xmas therefore means "Christ's Mass"
The abbreviation has been around since the 16th century."
"The greek letter 'x' is the first letter for the greek word for Christ, Xristos.
Xmas therefore means "Christ's Mass"
The abbreviation has been around since the 16th century."
NavyLCDR
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Dang it Yeti! You beat me to it! BTW, FWIW, you are absolutely correct. Also, buying a firearm on behalf of a person (with their money) who IS completely legal to purchase that firearm IS also a straw purchase. Just to second what you say, the legality of the recipient of the firearm has no bearing on whether or not a straw purchase was made.
That is not true. I, as a Washington State resident can buy long guns from FFL's in all 50 states. But it would be illegal for a resident of any state other than Washington to give me a long gun as a gift, even though I could purchase the exact same gun from an FFL in their state. Private party transactions, whether gifts or purchases, whether to family or not, shall NOT cross state lines without an FFL, unless it is by inheritance.
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Every year since I was a child when my relatives asked me what I wanted for Christmas, They always got the same answer. "A GUN!!" To date I have never got what I asked for.
expvideo
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Funny, I ask for ammo every year. I've never gotten ammo.
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JZO6 Santa has been good to you!
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